[SOLVED] Splinter - How to click a link / button implemented as a div or span element

Splinter - How to click a link / button implemented as a div or span element

I am using the Splinter library in Python. I wish to click on a link according to the link text, but this is not working.

The link is included in the source like:

<a href="link here"><span style="color:#000000;">link text here</span></a>

Using 'browser.click_link_by_text('link text here')' gives an error:

splinter.exceptions.ElementDoesNotExist: no elements could be found with link by text "link text here"

Solution

One option would be to use developer tools or Firebug to find the xpath of the element you are interested in and then use find_by_xpath based on that

from splinter import Browser

with Browser() as browser:
    browser.visit("http://www.thisamericanlife.org")
    browser.fill('keys', 'relationships')
    button = browser.find_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/div[2]/div[1]/div[2]/div/form/div/input[1]').click()
    print browser.url

This fills in the form (in this case for the search term "relationships") and then navigates to the page http://www.thisamericanlife.org/search?keys=relationships